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Interactive Course

Our award-winning software introduces you to speaking, listening, reading, and writing in your new language in a way that mimics the way you learned your first language.

Games & Activities

Engage with other learners in our structured online community for games, activities, and live chats – all designed to help you reinforce your new language skills.

Mobile Apps

Stay connected to your new language wherever you take your smartphone or tablet with our mobile apps.

Live Online Tutoring

Practice your conversation skills in live online sessions with a coach and up to three other learners. Designed to use only what you've learned, each tutoring session will encourage you to think and speak only in your new language.

Designed for your real-world language
success.

Aim for native pronunciation with our speech-recognition engine.

With the Rosetta Stone® method, you'll speak
Latin from the very first lesson. And you'll
receive real-time feedback every time you speak. Our proprietary speech
recognition engine, the most advanced in the industry, compares your
pronunciation to millions of native speakers 100 times per second.
Instant feedback means that at every step, you'll know exactly how
you're doing.

Practice your conversation skills in live tutoring sessions.

The best part about learning Latin is speaking it. And who better to converse with
than a native Latin speaker? We get it. That's where Live Tutoring
comes in. At optimal points in your course, we'll nudge you to schedule
an online session to connect with a native Latin-speaking tutor for experience practicing your new
skills!

Even though they're carefully structured to reinforce exactly what
you've learned, these sessions are totally casual. And convenient,
round-the-clock availability allows you to schedule your session when
it suits your schedule.

Get introduced to millions of practice partners in our online community.

Languages are made to be shared. And when you
learn a new language the Rosetta Stone® way, you're never alone. Our
online community gives you exclusive access to millions of other learners—for the opportunity to refine your new skills in language
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Latin Facts

Latin is a descendant of the ancient Proto-Indo-European language, but it's most widely known as the language of Ancient Rome and the philosophers and conquerors that came from that region of the world.

Why Should You Learn Latin?

Learn Latin and build a foundation for understanding Romance languages, like French, Italian, and Portuguese, and you'll better understand English.

About the Latin language.

Latin is a descendant of the ancient Proto-Indo-European language, but it's most widely known as the language of Ancient Rome and the philosophers and conquerors that came from that region of the world.

Improve your communication skills with Latin.

If you learn Latin today you'll build a foundation for understanding Romance languages, like French, Italian, and Portuguese, and you'll better understand English. Why is that? Romance languages are derivations of what is called Vulgar Latin, or sermo vulgi ("the speech of the masses"), which was the colloquial, or patois Latin used by the working class of ancient Rome. This was the unwritten form of the Latinized languages spoken by the Italo-Celtic peoples that were governed by the Romans. As the Roman Empire rolled through Western Europe, it carried with it its formal Latin, which then branched out into the Romance languages we know today—Romance languages referring to the languages that arose out of Rome, not to the language of lovers.

Contemporary uses for Latin.

There's been a resurrection of interest in learning Latin, thanks to the help of Pope Francis, of all people. Since he joined Twitter in 2012, his tweets have gone out to millions of Twitter members around the world in different languages, including Latin. That feed alone has over 275,000 followers. Aside from the papal influence, Latin is still the go-to language for the creation of new words in Romance languages and in English, and it's most specifically used in biological terminology.

Fun fact about the Latin language.

In vino veritas ("In wine there is truth") is a well-known Latin phrase that rings true today and forever will. Versions of the saying are found in many languages, including Russian, Что у трезвого на уме, то у пьяного на языке ("What a sober man has in his mind, the drunk one has on his tongue"); Persian, مستی و راستی ("With drunkenness comes the truth"); and Chinese, 酒後吐真言 ("After wine blurts truthful speech").